just to say, I had the same problem and fixed it the same way.
On Thursday 27 February 2003 8:27 pm, Florian Steinsiepe wrote: > Thank you for the quick answer. You gave me the input to solve the problem: > Eclipse depends on libxerces2-java package (which contains XercesJ v2.3.0), > but this Xerces is TOO NEW for Eclipse! I've extracted the Xerces JARs > (xercesImpl.jar and xmlParserAPI's.jar; no idea from which version they > are...) from the RC1 tarball of the eclipse.org site and replaced the soft > links in the plugins/org.apache.xerces_4.0.7 directory. Now it works! > > I mean this as a hint for Takashi Okamoto, who packed the debianized > Eclipse: Could you please refine this dependency or remove it completely? > > Greetings > Florian > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:59:06 +0100 > > Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Florian Steinsiepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I greedily installed the Eclipse package and found it extremely > > > unstable on j2sdk1.4, so I went back to j2sdk1.3. > > > > Hm, I haven't noticed that: I had sun java 1.4.1x and now the > > blackdown debs (1.4.xbeta99 or so), and an both eclipse was/is > > very stable. > > > > > As far as I know this kind of NoSuchMethodErrors, they occur due to an > > > incompatible or too old version of the Apache Xerces Parser. My > > > analysis is that the current libxerces2-java package (2.3.0). > > > > ^^^^^ > > plugins/org.apache.xerces_4.0.7 > > ^^^^^ > > Looks like Eclipse wants/expects some much newer ones... > > > > Jan, hasn't had a look on the eclipse debs yet > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Florian Steinsiepe > Zweierstr. 56 > CH - 8004 Zürich > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]